“Date a Live” The first TV broadcast of the first season began in 2013. The decision to produce a second season was announced when the 12th episode was broadcast, and a total of 10 episodes were broadcast in 2014 as “Date a Live II”. A series was later developed and a film was also released. Synopsis “Date a Live” is an anime work based...
“Black Clover” is a Japanese manga by Yuki Tajima. It was first published as a read-only series in 2014, then serialized in 2015.A TV anime adaptation was announced in 2016 and aired from 2017 to 2021. A total of 170 episodes. Production was handled by studio Piero. The story is basically based on the original work, but the anime contains original elements in places,...
“WORLD TRIGGER” is a Japanese shōnen manga by Daisuke Ashihara, serialised since 2013. An anime has been broadcast on TV since 2014. Synopsis Sangmon City, with a population of 280,000, is threatened by invaders from another dimension, the Neighbours. A junior high school student there, ‘Osamu Mikumo’, who has a strong sense of justice, meets a mysterious transfer student, ‘Yuma Kuga’.One day, a gate...
“Violet Evergarden” is a light novel by Kana Akatsuki. It was the first work to win the Grand Prize at the Kyoto Animation Awards. In 2018, a TV animation produced by Kyoto Animation was broadcast and simultaneously distributed simultaneously from Japan to the world; a film was released in 2019 and a completely new film was released in 2020. Synopsis Violet Evergarden is an...
“Girl Who Leapt Through Time” is a science fiction novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui. It was serialized from 1965 to 1966. It was published in 1967 as the fifth volume of the series. Since its TV dramatization as “Time Traveler” in 1972, it has been adapted to film nine times, including a live-action film directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi (1983) and an animated film directed by...
“OSHI NO KO” began as a manga series in 2020, with an animation released in 2023. A live-action film adaptation is scheduled to be released in winter 2024. Since the TV animation started, related words have been trending on Twitter every week, and the music video for the theme song “Idol” by YOASOBI has had more than 100 million views in about a month...
“Hikaru no Go” is an anime based on a Japanese shōnen manga about Go by Yumi Hotta and Ken Obata, which was broadcast for 75 episodes from 2001 to 2003. Yukari Yoshihara, a female Go player affiliated with The Nihon Ki-in, supervised the manga, which was serialised from 1999 to 2003. Various forms of media mixing have also taken place, including an animated TV...
Dr. Ramune: Mysterious Disease Specialist is an anime based on the manga by Toro Aho and aired in 2021. The series consists of 12 episodes, produced by Platinum Vision and directed by Hideaki Ooba. The story revolves around Ramune, an eccentric doctor who specializes in treating “mysterious diseases” that manifest from people’s inner emotional turmoil and stress. Alongside his assistant Kuro, Ramune tackles bizarre...
